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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Row between Twitter and Substack ends with uneasy truce

A user browsing Substack website
The conflict started after Substack announced a new feature, ‘Substack Notes’, which offers a Twitter-like experience for its authors and their readers. Photograph: Chris Delmas/AFP/Getty Images

A six-day row between Twitter and Substack has come to an uneasy truce after the social media site stopped censoring links and searches for the newsletter platform following the latter’s decision to launch a rival microblogging service.

However, the spat appears to have put an end to Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” project, after he tweeted then deleted screenshots of a conversation between himself and one of its writers, Matt Taibbi, in which the pair sparred over the censorship.

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